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On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary...

An easy-to-read version of Jack and the beanstalk, in which the boy's mother chops down the beanstalk so he can escape from the giant.

A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make his and his mother's fortune.

A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make his and his mother's fortune.

"Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. Because there's no way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower. There's no way they'd get locked inside. After dark. With those eerie sounds. And a strange dark figure who wants them...dead"--P. [4] of cover.

A retelling of an English folktale in which two sisters who go out to seek their fortune receive very different treatment.

When an acorn drops on Chicken Licken's head, he thinks the sky is falling and dashes off to tell the King. But instead he finds Foxy Loxy... Is Chicken Licken about to become Chicken Lunch?

After climbing to the top of a huge beanstalk, a boy uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and gain a fortune for himself and his mother.

A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant and make his and his mother's fortune.

Nine tales include "The Remarkable Rocket," "The Nightingale and the Rose," and "The Selfish Giant."